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+
+RescueGUI - a simple GUI for SWUpdate in rescue mode
+====================================================
+
+RescueGUI is a simple GUI written in Lua with the help of the tekui
+graphic toolkit (http:http://tekui.neoscientists.org/index.html).
+The goal is to have a GUI for HMI devices when SWUpdate is started
+in rescue mode.
+
+The GUI has the following goal:
+
+- GUI must show when an update is started from one of the interface
+ and displays the progress and status.
+- It can initiate an install from a local storage as SD / USB
+- It can provide stup for SWUpdate like network interface, etc.
+- Footprint should be as small as possible to be merged into the rescue image.
+- Build should be integrated in meta-swupdate
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+- Lua interpreter > 5.2 (previous versions untested)
+- tekui and luafilesystem module
+- SWUpdate binding (lua-swupdate)
+
+Starting
+--------
+
+SWUpdateGUI.lua is the main program.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+The GUI tries to load a config.lua file at the startup. See comments in this
+file to check what can be configured.
+
+License
+-------
+This project is licensed under GPL version 2.0+.
+
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